Long months of a pandemic lockdown and economic crisis have revived a scourge that Chileans thought they had beaten forever: hunger. So the number of neighborhood soup kitchens has exploded in Santiago, and restaurants — some of them gourmet establishments — have lit up their stoves to whip up meals in solidarity. In the municipality of Penalolen about 80 initiatives of this type have been launched. According to figures from local charities, there are at least 400 soup kitchens active across the Santiago metropolitan region, home to seven million people. For many families the meal distributed is the only one of the day.
Elsewhere in the capital, restaurants have reopened their kitchens after months of closure to provide meals for the poorest.This also helps suppliers and drivers, especially school transporters, which have been shut down since schools closed. Bazan, who had to close her restaurant for two months before reopening to provide deliveries, decided to join the “Food for All” initiative, which brings together 14 restaurants and distributes 6,000 meals a week. Chile is Latin America’s wealthiest nation per capita. To answer needs emerging elsewhere, there are now branches in other cities such as Antofagasta in the north, and Valpariso and Vina del Mar.
Source: DJ
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